Lunes, Oktubre 24, 2011

Ang Demokrasya ng mga Pinoy sa Text Voting

The recently concluded third installment of Pilipinas Got Talent resulted to a lot of disagreement to the victory of Maasinhon Trio. Sabi pa sa kumakalat na joke, season one had a “soloist” Jovit Baldivino, season two had a “duet” from Marcelito Pomoy and the third season hailed a “trio” as grand winner. At malaki daw and chance ng mga “quartet” na manalo sa season 4.

Marami ang tumaas ang kilay, pero sabi nga ni Luis Manzano sa kanyang tweet “@luckymanzano: “when all has been said and done, lahat sila talented and may ipagmamalaki, maybe voting just didnt go the way we wanted to, oh well :)” . Siguro nga’y the result didn’t go the way we expect, but I am pretty sure that the Maasin people expected it because they showed their unity and support to their kababayans.

And we know that the runner ups are fan-based. Khalil has a very strong fan base sa Facebook at bukambibig ng mga girls at beki sa twitter. Even my dad was rooting for him. Bringas brothers gained their fans kahit nung sa audition pa lang. Same to what happened to Jovit BAldivino, the season 1 champ who was so popular on Youtube, then nagsulputan ang mga fans sa Facebook. Kaliwa’t kanan maririnig mong kinakanta ang “Faithfully” sa videokehan, karinderya, barberya at sementeryo. Iba naman ng kwento ni MArcelito dahil he was not even a public choice during the semis, but still won because of his grand finals performance.

The voting public reflect the nation, who we are and what we are made of. In the same vein there was a controversy before from American Idol na naging bottom three ang “black divas” Jennifer Hudson, Fantasia Barrino and LaToya London (Paulsen, 2004). Sa text votes naipakita ang pagiging racist ng tao.

I still believe in the credibility of the television managements when it comes to text votes results. Lalo na pag sinasabi nilang “it was verified by SGV Accounting Firm” or “it was tallied and checked by Punonbayan and Araullo. ” Wala nga silang control sa resulta ng botohan ngunit MAY MAGAGAWA pa rin sila to somehow manipulate the audience to vote. How??

Pangalawa, ipakita sa tao ang current standing ng botohan. This happened to season 3 of PBB. For the first time, a week before the Big Night the TV program revealed the standings of the housemates. It was shown that Paul Jake lead the pack. But some active audience felt that there is something going on with this revelation. Parang it was a wake-up call to MELASON that neither of the two could bring home the bacon. It’s like telling them na wag pumetiks, ang akala niyong mananalo ay hindi pa nakakakuha ng enough votes. Ayon sa isang reaksiyon ng isang Youtube subscriber na si CliveRaf (2010):